Tag Archives: check point

Recently, whilst setting up Site-to-Site VPN with a partner company we saw an issue where the VPN tunnel came up successfully, but the connections allowed by the associated firewall rules failed. The Check Point tracker logs showed the packets being dropped, and the following information: encryption failure: According to the policy the packet should […]

Having recently emerged relatively unscathed from a Check Point Smart Management Server upgrade, I thought I’d blog about the experience – mainly for my own future reference, but if it helps anyone else out then that’s great too! I needed to get our SecurePlatform, Open Server based SMS from version R71.10 to R75.30, so I […]

One aspect of the Check Point SecurePlatform OS that I struggle to get my head around is backups. There are a few different options, and during the course of researching an upgrade I came across the best explanation I’ve seen yet. I’ve decided to grab a copy of the relevant text and post it in […]

This blog post details how to back up and restore Check Point Security Management Servers and Security Gateways running on the SecurePlatform OS, on Open Server hardware. There are two types of backup available – Snapshot and Backup. **note** it is recommended to only carry out backup procedures during a maintenance window due to the […]

A quick post showing how to save the routing and interface information from your Check Point Management Servers and Gateways running on the Secure Platform OS. Simply SSH onto the box and enter netstat -rn > routes.txt ifconfig > ifconfig.txt Copy the 2 txt files off the box and then also grab a copy of /etc/sysconfig/netconf.C […]

To save me time searching for commonly used commands for administering Check Point SecurePlatform (SPLAT) based boxes, I’ve started to put together a list of them here: General: chsh -s /bin/bash username – ensures that user “username” is dropped automatically into Expert Mode when logging in through the console fw ctl pstat (displays data […]